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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:10:49PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > ...> > And as for that "policy", it's been stated in public by Andrew and > > Linus and me (if I count for anything, doubtful...) a number of > > documented times. > > not me ;) It's two lines of code and makes things much simpler for the > users of our work. Seems a no-brainer. Sorry, the "policy" I was referring to was the "out-of-the-tree drivers are on their own" statement. Not the use of the HAVE macros. > And practically speaking, we don't make such fundamental driver-visible > changes _that_ often - if we end up getting buried under a proliferation of > HAVE_FOO macros, then the presence of the macros is the least of our > problems, yes? Ok, but can someone add a section in the feature-removal-schedule.txt file about when these specific macros will be removed? They must be created with some specific use in mind, right? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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